The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-11
Beautiful Creatures at Sixte sn and OLE
and Haggard at Thirty.


Beautiful Creatures at Sixte sn and Old
and Haggard at Thirty.
IF there was ever blighted race of
women, said gentlemazfs this city,
recently returned fCaSsyfsA Oh OF. - 3. Rpe
Cod, cit existsr6fB5 '7sn a 'lsil 70 T.
laGes- os..sss zHS1n the peninsular WI !
san fra Franc iINccMassachusetts, which depend |
on the fisheries for the support of their
inhabitants Nowhere else in all New
England will one ever see so high an
average of female beauty, especially IN
symmetry of form and freshness OF
complexion; but it will not take one
long to discover that this girlish beauty
and freshness, while unusual and uneX-
pected. is also in its duration very brief
The change produced in these girls by
the lapse of few years is painful to
observe No matronly graces are to
be seen among them after their girl
hood days are past. That charm
ing middle stage of maturing woman
hood, between the freshness and
buoyancy of the girl of twenty and the
woman of thirty-five or forty, Is en-
tirelv absent. The heightened color of
the cheek is gone The eyes are
sunken, and wear a constant look OF
sadness and anxiety Gray hair in
heads over which a score and a half OF
years have scarcely passed, and deep
lines in faces which should show no
trace of age for years to come, are
rather the rule than the exception.
These women, besides suffering from
Al! the inevitable sorrows which fall to
woman's Ilat-nooRratfefT what station
she may be placed, have an added IN
verse and perpetual sorrow all their
own. Theirs is a life of continual sus-
oense and anxiety, which is almost GER
t,in in time to be embittered by an over
whelming grief.
The most obtuse observer need not
ask the cause of this lack Of complete
matronly beauty among these women
whose budding days opened with the
greatest promise of superb physical
womanhood The cause suggests itself
at once to one who sees the cOngrega-
tons of women on the beaches and in
The quiet streets of the villages. He will
notice occasionally a feeble old man
among them. generally supported on the
arm of some female companion, who,
most likely, carries on her other arm
chubbv-faced child of lusty lungs. But
in these groups, or anywhere around the
VILLAGE. the observer will look in vain
for the presence of males between the
lettering years of these relics Of the
mast. and the prattling days of baby
hood. It is the fishing season, and
there are no men or boys on shore.
Theirsmacks are tossing on the treacher-
Gus waters of the fishing banks, and
their return, if they return at all, is as
uncertain as the weather, which forms
the one great subject OF conjecture and
apprehension among the villagers.
Husbands. sons, fathers, brothers and
sweethearts are somew here out on the
bosom of the sea, probably homewarC
bound, perhaps steering for still more
distant waters, perhaps struggling fol
life among the waves. Fair weather
l,eeps hope warm in many an anxiot:
wonan's heart; the bowling northeastel
fills it with doubt and despair. Con
stantly watching by day, waking in the
NIGHT to listen to sounds from the sea
whether they may be the roaring o
the dreaded tempest or merely the mOar
of the surf on the beach, is it any wonder
that the torture of mind and heart and
the strain of nerve and vital force thai
must follow this perpetual suspense anC
LONGING destroy the fountains of you'll
and beauty in these patient, sufferin:
women, and place upon them the mark
of are while they are yet young?
yet the girls grow up with but or
tbo1ioht of what their future lot will bi
with but one object in view upon whif
their visions of happiness are base
Go among any gro1 of these brig
niris. in any of the villages of the 81
am speaking OF. and you will find t''
nine out of ten of them look forward
a nnion, with some one who will se
his life fishing in the summer and &C
mo in the winter. The idea that
might be any other future than thu
which is to come to them as fisherr
wives. or that the life of a fisher
wife is any thing different froi
natural sequence of married life,
seems to occur. ~ I. bal Giasl
press.
There are over four hundred sale
IN Cairo. Egypt, where a few years
not one was open. Most OF them
owned By Englishmen.